Rutherford County Department of Solid Waste employee Willie Hayes goes to put away a jug of DEF fluid while servicing his truck at the facility on West College Street last week.

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The folks who live in this rural community northeast of Murfreesboro don't want the county's garbage trucks to be their neighbors.

"My main concern is my property value," Angela Cotter said during a grass-roots meeting Thursday night at the Lascassas Feed Supply business owned by Rutherford County Board of Education member Coy Young. "We moved to Lascassas because it's such a quaint place to be."

Cotter and Young were among about 21 people gathered to organize opposition to a proposal by County Mayor Ernest Burgess and Solid Waste Director Mac Nolen to relocate the garbage trucks and ...